Computer Issues/No signal

[steventhearmy70]

<p>I was playing EQ2 yesterday and my cpu locked up. SO i had to restart my cpu, while it was loading up the Dell screen and Windows Xp screen had matrix looking graphics and when windows was supposed to be loaded I got the no signal message. I know its not my monitor because i can tell some or all programs did not load up, I can tell by my keyboard.</p><p>Any ideas?</p><p>Thank you for any help!</p>

[Wullail]

<p><cite>steventhearmy70 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I was playing EQ2 yesterday and my cpu locked up. SO i had to restart my cpu, while it was loading up the Dell screen and Windows Xp screen had matrix looking graphics and when windows was supposed to be loaded I got the no signal message. I know its not my monitor because i can tell some or all programs did not load up, I can tell by my keyboard.</p><p>Any ideas?</p><p>Thank you for any help!</p></blockquote><p>Sounds like heat and your graphics card...</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Wullail@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Sounds like heat and your graphics card...</p></blockquote><p>While I can't be sure if it's heat, this is definitely a hardware issue with your graphics card.  Your description makes it sound like you're getting artifacts before the card completely fails.  Is this a new card/computer?  If so you'll probably want to contact the manufacturer.  Hopefully it is still under warranty.</p>

[steventhearmy70]

<p>Thank you for the response. The card is about 3+ years old.</p><p>I have been thinking of upgrading my cpu anyways, guess its maybe time.</p><p>My budget is prob around $1000-1800. Been looking at Alienware, and Gateway.  Just mostly play games and surf the net, so want a beast thats gonna last a few years.</p><p>I've been looking at this one:</p><h1><span >Gateway FX6831-01</span></h1><p><span>Processor:</span> 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-860 <span>Memory:</span> 8GB DDR3 <span>Storage:</span> 1TB hard drive <span>Optical Drive:</span> DVD±RW <span>Monitor:</span> No monitor <span>Graphics:</span> ATI Radeon HD 5850 (1GB) <span>Operating System:</span> Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)</p><p>$1299.00</p><p>What ya think??</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>steventhearmy70 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thank you for the response. The card is about 3+ years old.</p><p>I have been thinking of upgrading my cpu anyways, guess its maybe time.</p><p>My budget is prob around $1000-1800. Been looking at Alienware, and Gateway.  Just mostly play games and surf the net, so want a beast thats gonna last a few years.</p><p>I've been looking at this one:</p><h1><span>Gateway FX6831-01</span></h1><p><span>Processor:</span> 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-860 <span>Memory:</span> 8GB DDR3 <span>Storage:</span> 1TB hard drive <span>Optical Drive:</span> DVD±RW <span>Monitor:</span> No monitor <span>Graphics:</span> ATI Radeon HD 5850 (1GB) <span>Operating System:</span> Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)</p><p>$1299.00</p><p>What ya think??</p></blockquote><p>While I tend to build my own systems, that seems like a pretty decent value.  I don't know what you were using previously, but that should be a good upgrade over a 3 year old system.  The I-7 CPU is especially good for the game.</p>

[steventhearmy70]

<p>this is what i was using before:</p><p>Manufacturer:      Dell Inc.Processor:     Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)Memory:     2046MB RAMHard Drive:     315 GBVideo Card:     NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX</p><table ><tbody><tr><th></th> <td></td></tr> <tr><th></th> <td></td></tr> <tr><th></th> <td></td></tr> <tr><th></th> <td></td></tr> <tr><th></th> <td></td></tr> <tr><th></th> <td></td></tr></tbody></table>